Dressing Up Lemback Blog
It’s about time to make changes and perhaps change the traditional face of a blog. Lemback Blog has undergone a lot of changes even before but never adopted a layout that’s out of the core of blogging. I preferred a simple chronological blog layout since I started blogging, and modified free themes to suit my blog. But the rise of premium themes with impressive layout have always been a welcome option. After browsing a number of WordPress themes sites, I decided to go for a priced theme though the decisive factor that led me to purchase this CelebrityPress theme is the simple magazine layout styled with different colors. This is the second time I purchased a theme for this blog. Hubby was apprehensive but knowing me, by all means, I get what I want. Thus, here it is now, right before your eyes.
As you may know, there is no magic in installing a theme, whether paid or free. The need to modify a little or tweak some codes are the things that a blogger should have learned in the process. Although this theme from Gorilla Themes comes in different packages which includes support and forum depending on the package you choose, I preferred the cheaper, no support and forum included. Hubby and I spent the whole day to make it appear as it should. He fixed the header while I worked on codes. Problems like square banners appearing vertically, smileys taking the whole line in a post and adding necessary page templates.
Because of this theme, I’m back to working with widgets. I normally go into the files when adding contents in the sidebars. But doing what I used to do would ruin this theme and losing all the features as shown. Anyhow, I liked how my blog looks now, and so did hubby. I skipped the slideshow feature for now. If you want to see more of Gorilla Themes, just head on to their site.
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Marlene is a teacher by profession holding a degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. She works as a Mother Language Teacher in Sweden. She is a Filipina married to a Swede. She has been blogging since 2007 and she and her hubby own quite a number of websites. Connect with Marlene on Google+
The theme looks great actually, i like the colors…it’s nice that you always get what you want
it’s a wonder how we always do.
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Thank you, ella. Yes, if it’s affordable and not too hard to get, but if I want a Ferrari, I doubt it.
Yay, hubby chose that pic cos he said it fits the space. This is my blog so I might as well feel like a celebrity.
You too, have a nice weekend.
nice good imo themes te:)
Ako sa i-add ang like button apil sa uban, ziel. Wala man nako naapil gud. Basin inig check nimo usab naa na.
Hi dear and thank you for sharing… I really think you did wisely by choosing the “cheep” one.. you don’t really need Technical support and forum for a them … so in this perspective its OK.
I like this new look of your blog although I must say that I really loved the “old” one as well. It looked like a party ..
I wonder .. what kind of code working did you have to preform ..
Good luck with the new freshness
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Hi Michael, thanks a lot for your kind words. It wasn’t a major problem I encountered but mostly in the css-styling and removing-replacing some codes in the template files. One problem remains though – couldn’t figure out yet how to style the smileys as they seem to grab the images’ style in the css. Adding free text in the sidebar is also a pain. Get to fix them later.
I’m keeping the old theme for later use on my other blog.
Thank you Marlene for this bit of information ! I was really wondering, what types of problems might arise as of changing a blog them.
I am not “that good” in CSS, otherwise I would have given you the answers as for the smileys and side text right here and now.
But i believe you’ll manage with it.
Thanks again and Good luck
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Thanks for your concern though I wish you could help to clear my head of this little problem. But I’m taking one step at a time as I am not that good either.